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REGIONAL - For programs and services that meet the needs of the vision impaired, improve their quality of life, and enable them to live an independent and productive life, the Greater Newburyport Fund for the Blind (GNFB) is accepting grant applications for up to...
GEORGETOWN – George Peabody, the financier and father of modern American philanthropy, was smiling from his portrait atop the stairs at the public library named for him because Thursdays just got better. After years of being closed on Thursdays to save money, the...
NEWBURYPORT – The SteelDrivers, one of the biggest names in progressive bluegrass music, has done it again in the port city. The Grammy-nominated band for the second time has sold out its concert next week on April 29 as part of the popular Belleville Roots Music...
REGIONAL -- Earth Day is just around the corner, so what can you do to celebrate? On Earth Day, April 22, the Merrimack River Watershed Council is looking for volunteers to help clean up Deer Island in Amesbury. As a result of visitors and swift downstream currents,...
REGIONAL – The Actors Studio, which has been producing high-quality performances with local actors, directors and playwrights for more than 30 years, is in search of money and a new home. “I make no apologies. We need money,” said Marc Clopton, the founder and...
NEWBURYPORT -- Byron Matthews, who died last month at age 94, was probably best known as the mayor who in the 1960s helped save this city’s downtown brick buildings from the urban renewal bulldozer. But to hundreds of avid tennis players throughout the North Shore,...
WEST NEWBURY — West Newbury Fire Department and mutual aid partners extinguished a residential garage fire Sunday night. The West Newbury Public Safety Dispatch Center received a 911 call at 6:35 p.m., reporting a fire at a home on Middle Street. The fire started in...
REGIONAL — Salisbury residents will have to wait until mid-May to learn if the town needs to find a successor to its long-time town manager, a task town leaders say will be difficult. Neil Harrington, who for almost 20 years has been the Salisbury town manager, beat...
REGIONAL – With warm weather just around the corner, it’s time to consider taking a boating or kayaking safety course. If you have wanted to learn Tai Chi because your doctor says movement is medicine, how to create jewelry from sea glass collected on the beach or to...
NEWBURYPORT – The barber shop has long been a gathering place for men to get a trim and a shave, but even more to see old friends, make new ones, catch up on the latest, and above all, talk. Banter Barber and Clothier, as the name suggests, embraces that tradition on...
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